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Enable Instana to Monitor and Visualize Specific CICS TS Component Sub‑Metrics via OMEGAMON Sensor

Request to extend Instana so it can surface detailed CICS TS sub‑component metrics—such as sockets, transaction classes, TDQs, TSQs, connection and file statuses, and memory usage—when these are provided by the OMEGAMON sensor. These metrics are a...
3 days ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON AI for CICS / Product functionality 0 Submitted

Create situation for ABENDCODE TEP´s Portal or Grafana GUI

We have 3 clients in Central America and there are more than 10 CICS partitions in use. The type of alarm or situation that needs to be created is based on Abend codes; search for a code and when it appears, trigger a situation. Currently, we have...
17 days ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON AI for CICS / Product functionality 0 Submitted

Native GitLab Runner for z/OS security

The security concepts of GitLab runners are mainly intended for distributed environments owned by a single application. With the introduction of the GitLab Runner for z/OS, which is a system shared by hundreds of users and applications, a new secu...

Enable internal initiation and control of packet‑level trace collection within the e3270UI and Web UI—eliminating dependencies on NetView or external utilities—while supporting user‑specified output paths and export formats compatible with Wireshark and other protocol‑analysis tooling.

Add the ability to turn on Packet Tracing, which will collect the data and allow the user to save it in a format I can easily feed into Wireshark or other analytics platforms. To meet expectations, OMEGAMON AI for Networks must provide the capabil...
15 days ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON AI for Networks 0 Submitted

Allow creating groupings by a tag or label

Due to the enormous number of CICS regions/JVMServers, it is extremely difficult to easily and quickly locate/view specific information during the analysis process using the E3270UI interface.Therefore, we understand that the possibility of groupi...
5 months ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON AI for JVM 0 Future consideration

Support for Endevor Processor Group Steps with SYSTSPRT/SYSTSIN Allocation via Execute Package Command

In the IBM Developer for z/OS (IDz) CARMA Endevor integration, CA Endevor® processor group steps that allocate SYSTSPRT or SYSTSIN datasets currently fail with allocation errors when executed in foreground mode or through the execute package comma...
about 1 month ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host/Distributed SCM Integration 0 Submitted

Add sort fields to workspace KCPPSLD

In workspace KCPPSLD we would like to be able to sort on fields Transaction Rate and Transactions total.
25 days ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON AI for CICS / All components 0 Under review

Omegamon USS metrics without root privileges

The Omegamon TEMS STC requires USS root privileges to gather z/OS UNIX metrics.Giving root privileges to any service is an unnecessary security risk.To solve this security issue, Omegamon could use UNIXPRIV or another form of security delegation t...
5 months ago in IBM OMEGAMON for z/OS 2 Future consideration

Support AMODE64 MQI calls from PL/I applications

Hello IBM, AMODE64 MQI calls from PL/I applications is currently not officially supported by IBM. However, 64-bits support already exist for C applications.Adding support for PL/I only requires simple updates to the CMQEPP copybook. Here is an exa...
3 months ago in PL/I Compilers / z/OS 1 Planned for future release

Reduce the amount of storage used by the JSONGet functions

We see high cpu from LE 'Get a stack' from build in PL/1 JSONGet functions like JsonGetValue. Please reduce the stack used storage in the JSONGet functions.
3 months ago in PL/I Compilers / z/OS 1 Planned for future release